Idea Integration to offer Microsoft stimulus package - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Idea Integration is one of six companiesz inthe U.S. chosen by to offer Microsoft “They’ve cobbled together a lot of Microsoft technologyu as a solution that can drop into a systemk and immediately track stimulus dollarx and apply forstimulus dollars,” said Sandy Bateh, a seniotr vice president at Idea Integration and the company’s Microsoft alliance manager. The package is aimed at state and localk governments trying to get their share of the stimuluzs money and to trackits use. Idea Integration and the othed five companies offering the packagde were chosen because of their familiarit with all of the applicationw inthe package.
“You have to understand the five underlyingy pieces ofthe technology,” Bateh Idea Integration will be competingv with the other five companies for governmentt clients. Bateh said the most promising sector isloca governments, since most of the stimulux money ultimately gets spent at that level. Bateh said the alliancee with Microsoft gives Idea Integration a chancde to landnew clients. “It’s a great opportunity for companies like us because it givesanother entry, it’s a he said.